Medical expense relief discussed

The Treasury has started consultation on changing the tax treatment of out-of-pocket and catastrophic medical expenses.

20 Jun 2011

It released a discussion document outlining three options for a tax credit system for medical aid contributions to be introduced by March next year, and called for submissions to be made before 31 October. Read on.

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